~marginalrevolution | Bookmarks (577)
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What are the actual dangers of advanced AI? - Marginal REVOLUTION
That is the focus of my latest Bloomberg column, 2x the normal length. I cannot cover...
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Rasheed Griffith podcast with Andrew Mellor - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio and transcript, Mellor is the author of one of my favorite books...
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Friday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Who invented butter chicken? 2. What tech fashion looks like. 3. What top Finnish conductors...
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Surgery is Not FDA Regulated - Marginal REVOLUTION
What would happen if the FDA regulated pharmaceuticals much less than currently? I have pointed to...
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What should I ask Marilynne Robinson? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yes I will be doing a Conversation with her. Here is from Wikipedia: Marilynne Summers Robinson (born...
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My Conversation with Rebecca F. Kuang - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript, here is the episode summary: Rebecca F. Kuang just...
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My podcast on how to use GPT-4 - Marginal REVOLUTION
Yours truly, with Dan Shipper: Your episode is live! Here’s the X link. It’s also on YouTube and Spotify. At the end...
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Thursday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Human Go play quality improves after AlphaGo debuts. Or is that just picking up more...
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Why hasn't the opioid epidemic converged to manageable levels? - Marginal REVOLUTION
There is a new NBER working paper on this very good question by David M. Cutler...
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How and why do legal codes differ across red and blue states? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Polarization in the traditional sense is not very important: …this study examined the criminal codes of...
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The Contractual Origins of High-Rent Urban Blight - Marginal REVOLUTION
Have you ever wondered why empty storefronts in major cities stay empty for so long? There...
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Wednesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Short speed climbing video. 2. On David Graeber. 3. Vincent Geloso on the Piketty controversies....
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Two Updates on the Value of Vaccines - Marginal REVOLUTION
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract...
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Dan Wang 2023 letter - Marginal REVOLUTION
Self-recommending. The post Dan Wang 2023 letter appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. CommentsIn reply to...
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Matt Yglesias on the media - Marginal REVOLUTION
A point I tried to make on our Politix episode with Will Stancil is that progressive-minded people —...
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Tuesday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Arnold Kling on Hotelling and Julian Simon. 2. “President Vladimir Putin derided those “jumping around...
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South Dakota is trying to hold on - Marginal REVOLUTION
Map of the TFRs by US state for 2023, based on recently released birth data from...
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When will the world have its first trillionaire? - Marginal REVOLUTION
Not anytime soon, as I argue in my Bloomberg column, here is one of the arguments:...
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Rent Controls - Marginal REVOLUTION
Ryan Bourne has a good rundown on rent controls in Argentina. In 2020 Argentina introduced a...
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Quick tour of Argentina's fiscal deficit (from my email, anonymous author) - Marginal REVOLUTION
I won’t double indent, but this is not by me, though I agree with it: “I...
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*The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America* - Marginal REVOLUTION
By Coleman Hughes, coming soon! The post *The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind...
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Monday assorted links - Marginal REVOLUTION
1. Noah Smith on the California Forever Project. 2. Corporations defending DEI. 3. More on ice...
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Dose Optimization Trials Enable Fractional Dosing of Scarce Drugs - Marginal REVOLUTION
During the pandemic, when vaccines doses were scarce, I argued for fractional dosing to speed vaccination...
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No, Covid spending wasn't the only factor, but... - Marginal REVOLUTION
Barro, CPI rate correlation with covid spending in 37 countries pic.twitter.com/AD47gPTbYb — 161phi (@161phi) January 21,...